The Sky News Special Correspondent Alex Crawford was given exclusive access to the base and having travelled to the autonomous region of Puntland and the remote Galgala mountains where the terror group has been operating.
Somali soldiers have stormed the house in the village of Galgala which saw the Briton Abdul Nadir Mumin, a UK passport-holder who lived in south London and still has links in the country flee the area into the mountains, but not before recruiting and indoctrinating fighters.
The Puntland army Chief General Saed Mohamed Hirsi warned if Puntland is not helped to fight terrorism, there will be a breeding ground for terror here that will spread to the rest of the world and Islamic State is relying more heavily on child soldiers as growing numbers of fighters desert the group.
Now the international IS network has put its tentacles down in the Horn of Africa, how many will be coerced or tempted to join with the promise of paradise and riches?
